National Desk

Former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, once one of the nation's most influential lawmakers, has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two Federal corruption charges and serve 17 months in prison, a lawyer in the case said today.

Renewing the tax package temporarily creates more opportunities for industry groups to lobby Congress, and for legislators to shake down the beneficiaries of the tax breaks for contributions, Victor Fleischer writes in the Standard Deduction column.

December 14, 2008, Sunday

FOR anyone in the private sector, the rise and very public fall of Harvey L. Pitt as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission would appear to be a career-stopping performance. Mr. Pitt had earned a stellar reputation in Washington as a...

In the first batch of pardons of his final holiday season in the White House, President Clinton today pardoned 59 people including Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a man whose conviction exemplified...

President Clinton's pardon yesterday of Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges in 1996, is a misuse of the presidential pardoning power in order to pay back a loyal...